Or elles of myn oghne Sone

I schal be slain, I mai noght fle.’

Thoghte Alisandre in privete,

‘Hierof this olde dotard lieth’:

And er that other oght aspieth,

Al sodeinliche his olde bones

He schof over the wal at ones, 2310

P. iii. 79

And seith him, ‘Ly doun there apart:

Wherof nou serveth al thin art?